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How do you get all of your files that are in a dead OS?

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My grandma's really old first addition of XP computer (almost as old as mine that I am typing on)

I was trying to make the computer hibernate (since they get unsteady power) but the computer apparently said "screw that! I'm old" and de-booted somewhere within an hour never to be booted again.

So with limited resources in a different state than my grandma (I am in my own state) I am going to ship a CD to my grandma with Ubuntu or Kubuntu or both. She is not exactly technologically impaired (considering she is still in nuclear medicine).

So my question to you is to tell me how you get all of the data in the windows XP partition and put it onto the new Kubuntu/Ubuntu partition in easy to understand terms. I will probably e-mail her how to do that cause she can access her e-mail without installing anything once she has the cd

I am pretty sure I won't have any boot problems because of BIOS, because I re-configured it when I was trying to save XP.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

> never to be booted again

Lets hope LiveCD will boot and it isn't hardware failure.

> get all of the data in the windows XP partition

Needs any external USB, stick or hd to move important data.

You could also try to reach someone from locales in order to step her aside.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList

Just in case.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

< XP never to be booted again so far than I know

someone already came to her house, just not a Linux wizard. So yea this question would be pointless if that worked.

I think that It might be a hard drive problem, considering that the blue screen said "un-bootable volume"

But still if it isn't dead and you could get the stuff I still would like to know so I am leaving this question open.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#3

does she hear a clunking sound when she boots the computer? if so, then the hard drive is dead. does the harddrive light go on when she boots up?

hard to say without being there in person to see what it's doing.

the people from mass electronics retailers aren't very knowledgeable about anything. so you might want to try sam_'s suggestion and contact someone in her area to see if they can have a look at her computer.

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

It sounds the same as it always did so no.

I might suggest someone from that post there but it is a very very old computer like the first line of XP to be bragged about type of old.

She was planning on getting a laptop so I don't know if it would really be worth the money.

If the hard drive is still alive then everything would be a lot nicer if you can get a blue screen then that means that you have a hard drive to see it from right?

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